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Data on Data Centers: Turning Messy, Incomplete Info into Shared Power
December 15, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST
Are you struggling with finding reliable data on data centers? You are not alone!
As data centers spread across the U.S., communities, journalists, and researchers are all running into the same problem: the data is a mess. Key details like power draw, water use, operating status, finance, legislation, and real job numbers are incomplete, inconsistent, or flat-out contradictory across different sources. One database lists a project as “operating” while another still shows it as “planning”; major players show up with missing data; industry reports inflate economic benefits while government studies say otherwise.
The result is a “friction problem”: even people who spend all day hunting for data struggle to find, trust, and use it.
In this working session, we’ll bring data geeks, local researchers, and community organizers into the same (virtual) room to compare and assess the strengths of leading data sources.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Outline the most important gaps for frontline communities (power, water, jobs, pollution risk).
- Develop a standard for what public information requirements should look like for industrial-scale data centers.
- Explore how better data can strengthen local campaigns to win on policy and regulatory oversight.
This is not a “What are data centers?” 101 webinar. It’s a practical conversation about the state of the data, how it fails communities, and what we can collectively do to improve collection, sharing, and accountability.
